Changing compile or load options

You can specify compiler and/or compile and load time flags by using
environment variables during Berkeley DB configuration. For
example, if you want to use a specific compiler, specify the CC
environment variable before running configure:

prompt: env CC=gcc ../dist/configure

Using anything other than the native compiler will almost certainly mean
that you'll want to check the flags specified to the compiler and
loader, too.

To specify debugging and optimization options for the C compiler,
use the CFLAGS environment variable:

prompt: env CFLAGS=-O2 ../dist/configure

To specify header file search directories and other miscellaneous options
for the C preprocessor and compiler, use the CPPFLAGS environment variable:

prompt: env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/contrib/include ../dist/configure

To specify debugging and optimization options for the C++ compiler,
use the CXXFLAGS environment variable:

prompt: env CXXFLAGS=-Woverloaded-virtual ../dist/configure

To specify miscellaneous options or additional library directories for
the linker, use the LDFLAGS environment variable:

prompt: env LDFLAGS="-N32 -L/usr/local/lib" ../dist/configure

If you want to specify additional libraries, set the LIBS environment
variable before running configure. For example, the following would
specify two additional libraries to load, "posix" and "socket":

prompt: env LIBS="-lposix -lsocket" ../dist/configure

Make sure that you prepend -L to any library directory names and that you
prepend -I to any include file directory names! Also, if the arguments
you specify contain blank or tab characters, be sure to quote them as
shown previously; that is with single or double quotes around the values
you are specifying for LIBS.

The env command, which is available on most systems, simply sets one or
more environment variables before running a command. If the env command
is not available to you, you can set the environment variables in your
shell before running configure. For example, in sh or ksh, you could
do the following: